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- 01 Sep 2016
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Going Forward
to improve the perception of HBS and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to build the case for flexible funding that would support innovation at the School. On all these dimensions we have...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Averting Crisis
practitioners, and the public. Researchers have found that financial instability often follows periods when institutions, policymakers, and investors have underestimated risks—errors in perception that are visible in the run-up to past...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
there are some charities where the volunteer opportunities are so popular, you have to pay to volunteer. When you get into situations like that one, it can start to share traits with other consumption goods, like going to the movies. How do View Details
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- 17 Dec 2015
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Field 2 Gives Students Hands-On Exposure To Business Practices In Malaysia
Not long after arriving in Kuala Lumpur in January 2015, Jennifer Henderson (MBA 2016) realized that her perception of what it would be like to work with a company there differed from the reality. Although she had read articles and cases...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
on channeling the keen interest many of us have in financial stability.” There is consensus within the group that financial instability often follows periods when institutions, policy makers, and investors have underestimated risks. These errors in View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
design doesn’t need to enter the commercial arena. The perception exists that creative businesses can just start up, when in fact it takes a while for an entire ecosystem to actually generate an industry. There’s a construction of...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
and fund-raising projects. Outside Harvard, he visits with amputees and trauma victims and is working on a national awareness campaign with Easter Seals to educate amputees regarding the availability of aesthetic, upper-limb prostheses. He also enjoys "expanding...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal
However, the effects of professional isolation on job performance decrease with some face-to-face interactions and access to more communication technologies, such as video conferencing and dedicated voiceover IP lines. Even the perception...
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- 03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?
sometimes bends the truth to its advantage. Ayr: If you just ask somebody a question about food, and what their perception is and then the reality of the answer. And in our industry that gap is just so large and it’s deliberate, it’s...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lessons or definitive answers. But somewhere in the two-day span we spend talking with villagers, sharing their food, and sleeping in their homes, perceptions shift. It’s one thing to read a newspaper article about the impact of...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
services, inner-city residents often face a lack of basic services. Many large retail stores, for instance, are not interested in launching locations in urban areas because they are put off by perceptions of low-income levels and high...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
revealed striking contrasts between students' perceptions of HBS before and after entering the MBA Program," he explains. "On the whole, they found HBS much less competitive than they'd expected and far more friendly, responsive, and...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
loses his or her brilliant colors - turns from a butterfly into a moth - then he or she no longer measures up. This view of the director's role creates a terrible perception for the public. Beyond that, it is the antithesis of enlightened...
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Joseph Hinsey IV
- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
beginning to recognize many of the same concerns that other sectors face, such as the effect of work-life balance issues on women and the “double bind”—the tension between the perception of competence and likability. “What’s different...
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April White
- 01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net
create satisfied, loyal customers." In such new territory, it is not surprising that there was initial skepticism about observing the world of cyberspace from a management perspective. "During the first few years we were studying the marketspace, there was a View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing
groundbreaking research project was the impetus that would bring a steady stream of professors, managers, and other participants from Russia and Eastern Europe to HBS. "At HBS," Vlachoutsicos recalls, "the perception was that Soviet power...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business
of the workshops is to develop training programs in the prevention of HIV/AIDS that can be scaled to the needs of the organization and deliver key curricular materials and models over the Internet. The challenge is to overcome the View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future
she anticipated customer needs, many crews and companies requested she come back. “I felt that I changed some people’s perceptions of the fitness of a woman in such a demanding job and environment,” she says. Since those early engineering...
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Jill Radsken
- 19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success
another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After HBS, Huebner moved to...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
transaction prices and bank deposits — that carry stiff penalties if violated. What are the attitudes overseas about U.S. enforcement efforts? The perception is widespread in developing and transitional economies that the West, including...
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